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3)
Those devotees to whom the responsiblity was given to continue
spreading this flood of love somehow
became overpowered by Maya and were thus reduced
to simply performing ritualistic Hindu ceremonies for the benefit
of the materialists.
4)
Lord Nityananda's inundation of prema was thus completely stopped
by those known as jati-gosai (caste gosvamis) But Then you personally
came, O Master to open wide the floodgates once again.
5)
Again you engulfed everyone in the deluge of pure divine love
- even such a low, wretched, fallen and sinful soul as myself.
6)
On the strength of Lord Chaitanya Mahaprabhu's command you sent
all of your servants as spiritual masters, going from door to
door, just to deliver the fallen souls.
7)
The devotees were enthusiastically preaching everywhere - from
the oceans to the Himalaya mountains, But now that you have
gone from our midst everything today has become very dark.
8)
O Shrila Prabhupada! You personally suffer to see the suffering
of the fallen conditioned souls. On this day of your separation
I am utterly despondent.
Second Octet -- The Merciful Flood
Has Been Stopped
1)
Just as Advaita Prabhu had prayed fervently and thus induced
Shri Gauranga to descend, so did your father, Bhaktivinoda Thakura,
pray for you to incarnate.
2)
Due to Bhaktivinoda's eagerness, O Master, you came and proclaimed
to everyone that India is the most holy land of the Lord's divine
pastimes.
3)
"One who has taken birth in this land of Bharata-bhumi
(India) should first make his own life successful and then work
for the benefit of all other people" (C.C Adi 9.41)
4)
This is the most significant message of Lord Chaitanya that
you boldly preached everywhere. But now in your absence, O Master,
everything has fallen into darkness.
5)
The overflowing ocean of your compassion has once again been
dammed up. This makes me feel as if a spear of great misery
has indeed pierced my heart.
6)
Without Chaitanya Mahaprabhu's message being spread there is
only confusion and upheaval in the movement. Seeing this situation,
all the Vaishnavas are also feeling overwhelmed with the pangs
of your separation.
7)
The spirit souls have once again been captured by Maya and plunged
into absolute darkness. Desperately searching for relief, they
are simply perishing in a fathomless ocean of anxiety.
8)
O Shrila Prabhupada! You personally suffer to see the suffering
of the fallen conditioned souls. On this day of your separation
I am utterly despondent.
Third Octet -- Practical Chanting and
Preaching
1)
You instructed everyone you met to chant the holy name of Lord
Krishna. You showed the example of continually reciting the
maha-mantra into their ears.
2)
You empowered everyone with the qualification to further distribute
that holy name But now, by the influence of Maya, there is only
darkness on all sides.
3)
The souls who are truly attached to worshiping the Lord always
sing and dance in joyful sankirtana. Following in the footsteps
of their spiritual master, they deliver the whole world.
4)
But those who have no such qualification perform nirjana bhajana
or so-called confidential worship in a solitary place. Thus
acting whimsically, all of them actually remain absorbed in
personal sense gratification.
5)
[As stated in the Shrimad Bhagavatam 10,33,30]: "An ordinary
soul should never imitate the activities of the Supreme Lord,
even in his mind." According to these instructions in devotional
service, the unqualified imitators are ruined.
6)
You preached "utility is the principle" - that is,
one should act without attachment and use anything that is deemed
appropriate in the devotional service of the Lord.
7)
In such detached devotional service to Lord Krishna there would
be a temple established in every house. But now just the opposite
situation is apparent everywhere.
8)
O Shrila Prabhupada! You personally suffer to see the suffering
of the fallen conditioned souls. On this day of your separation
I am utterly despondent.
Fourth Octet -- The Essential Purport
Neglected
1)
Everything regarding material prosperity as well as mystic perfection
is fully present in your transcendental message: "Because
the residents of Vraja have life, therefore they engage in preaching
work." (Dusta Mana verse)
2)
The "resolute intelligence" ("vyavasayatmika
buddhi") explained by Shrila Visvanatha Cakravarti [in
his commentary to Bhagavad Gita 2.41] is now spoiled since your
disciples have become ensnared in the bewildering noose of Maya.
3)
Those disciples who were irresolute in performing devotional
service according to your instructions have now divided your
mission in many factions. It appears that the tigress of ambition
for material names and fame has appeared and personally provoked
this upheaval.
4)
The essential purport of your message obviously did not enter
their ears. O where will I get the strength to perform this
hari-nama-sankirtana?
5)
To chant the holy name of the Lord is the explicit command of
my worshipful spiritual master. I could never honestly neglect
that order.
6)
Your greatest acclaim is that you propagated the topmost religious
culture. Anyone who accepts the holy name from you becomes spiritually
qualified.
7)
If all those who attained this qualification were to go out
and make disciples then the miserable conditioned souls would
all be delivered from this world of birth and death.
8)
O Shrila Prabhupada! You personally suffer to see the suffering
of the fallen conditioned souls. On this day of your separation
I am utterly despondent.
Fifth Octet -- The Disciple's Empowerment is Lost
1)
The greatest mantra of all, consisting of thirty-two letters,
is:
Hare
Krishna Hare Krishna Krishna Krishna Hare Hare
Hare Rama Hare Rama Rama Rama hare Hare
People
who are possessed by gross foolishness refuse to chant it.
2)
Your so-called disciple, the jackal named Ananta Vasudeva, disobeyed
your final instructions to keep the mission united, and thereby
created a scandalous fiasco. The result of this philosophical
deviation is evident to this day as imitative sahajiyas are
being worshiped as gurus in your temples.
3)
Is there a single temple to be found where your instructions
are still being followed? As it is said: "punar musiko
bhava"- Everyone has "again become a mouse."
4)
The lion's food has been stolen away by the deceptive tricks
of the jackal. Now caught in Maya's mighty clutches everyone
is reduced to wailing and weeping.
5)
O Master! If your are merciful to us one again, then even though
we are trapped here on the shores of the ocean of death, we
will finally behold a change for the better.
6)
Then once again we can blissfully remember the holy name of
Krishna, and once again we will have firm faith in your "Vaikuntha
messages."
7)
Once again you will make us dance in the pure holy name of Krishna.
Thus you will personally dispel all this confusion caused by
Maya.
8)
O Shrila Prabhupada! You personally suffer to see the suffering
of the fallen conditioned souls. On this day of your separation
I am utterly despondent.
Sixth Octet -- The Preaching Mission
is Scattered
1)
"Continue dancing, singing and performing sankirtana in
the association of devotees." ( C.C. Adi 7.92) These words
spoken by Shri Chaitanya Mahaprabhu are especially nectarine.
2)
If we have complete faith in these instructions given by you,
our spiritual master, then in the performance of sankirtana
actual love for Krishna will be aroused in us.
3)
Without love of God, our tiny intelligence only becomes entangled
in the network of Maya's delusions. Because no one actually
attained prema, now there has been great upheaval in your mission.
4)
The whole world has become filled with impersonalists, and the
Vaishnavas have given up the work of preaching that was entrusted
unto them and have simply gone off to perform solitary worship.
5)
The Vaishnava's were famous as "patita pavana" (deliverers
of the falen) but now this title has fallen into disgrace. Countless
numbers of your disciples have been forced to leave your movement.
6)
At such an inauspicious time, O Master, what can be done to
repair the damage that is done? The beautiful garden that you
had so carefully planted is now parched and withered away.
7)
O Master, please awaken some good intelligence in this insignificant
disciple of yours so that my firm faith in your transcendental
message may increase more and more.
8)
O Shrila Prabhupada! You personally suffer to see the suffering
of the fallen conditioned souls. On this day of your separation
I am utterly despondent.
Seventh Octet -- Distributing the Pure
Devotional Process
1)
The most magnanimous incarnation of the Lord is Shri Krishna
Chaitanya. Distributing the process of attaining love of God
by chanting the holy names of Krishna, He thus blessed the entire
universe.
2)
O Master, you are the personification of the transcendental
message of Lord Chaitanya. You are the distributor of that message
to every town and village.
3)
You sent your devotees to preach in the faraway lands of the
Western countries, and you personally traveled all over India,
even to the South.
4)
You preached the pure philosophy of Lord Gauranga in such a
way that intelligent persons could understand. And you showed
such great concern, O Master, in convincing all your adversaries!
5)
Lord Gauranga used many tricks just to engage the conditioned
souls in devotional service, and you have also understood how
to use all those tricks perfectly well.
6)
You understood time, place and circumstance, and utilized everything
as a strategy for preaching. Although observing your activities
with their very eyes. those who are blind like owls and other
creatures of the night could not see your true purpose.
7)
What will the Auls and the Sahajiyas and the other nonsense
groups ever understand? And what will the sheep-like common
people or dry logicians ever understand?
8)
O Shrila Prabhupada! You personally suffer to see the suffering
of the fallen conditioned souls. On this day of your separation
I am utterly despondent.
Eighth Octet -- If Only You would Come
Again
1)
Lord Chaitanya's method of devotional service is not performed
in solitude. You preached this again and again to your own devotees.
2)
Just as the Lord delivered Jagai and Madhai out of His own causeless
mercy, you explained to everyone that this same method of preaching
work has to go on.
3)
The world has now filled up with many Jagais and Madhais to
deliver. Everyone is anxiously looking down the road waiting
for Chaitanya-Nitai to come to their rescue.
4)
If, at such a time as this, you were to personally return to
this world and once more preach about all these things the way
you always used to do.
5)
If there were enthusiastic preaching activities again taking
place in every direction, then all the people as before would
be stirred up in blissful excitement.
6)
Your profound shouting would cause the demons and atheists to
flee, and your narrations of Lord Chaitanya's message would
fill the hearts of the innocent souls.
7)
Again the whole world would be excitedly bustling with good
tidings; but as it is, in your absence now there is nothing
of value anywhere.
8)
O Shrila Prabhupada! You personally suffer to see the suffering
of the fallen conditioned souls. On this day of your separation
I am utterly despondent.
O Master! My heart is broken in your absence. This disciple
named Abhay has hereby revealed only a small token of his wretched
agony of separation.
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